Tax on Shipping Only (VAT)

Is there a way to only charge VAT tax on shipping only, as the products are zero-rated in the UK?

Yes, what I have done in the past is to create a new field in the product database called taxable like so:

`taxable` tinyint(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0' COMMENT 'Sets whether the product should be taxable or not i.e. children's clothes are not taxable',

This also needs to be added to the eCart Object as a new column and the value passed when adding to cart.

Then I create a rule that says do not charge tax on any items in the cart where the Taxable Column value is 1

Hope that helps

Thanks Dave - that makes perfect sense!

In this instance all my products are zero-rated, so there must be an easier way to do this?

Al I want the cart to do is ignore the product subtotal, and add VAT onto the delivery which is a fixed cost.

In the shipping rule, use a flat rate calculation of:

$this->GetShipping() * 0.086


this will charge a tax of 8.6% of the shipping cost. you can change the percentage to whatever you like.

In my scenario I had both taxable and non taxable products to account for plus shipping

Thanks Jason - that worked.

Dave - thanks for the idea - I'm sure I will put it to use in the future!

glad to hear it is working.